Since the 1960s the label has become a disciplinary device that has
been overwhelmingly effective in defining certain events off limits to
inquiry or debate. Especially in the United States raising legitimate
questions about dubious official narratives destined to inform public
opinion (and thereby public policy) is a major thought crime that must
be cauterized from the public psyche at all costs.

Conspiracy theory’s acutely negative connotations may be traced to
liberal historian Richard Hofstadter’s well-known fusillades against the
“New Right.” Yet it was the Central Intelligence Agency that likely
played the greatest role in effectively “weaponizing” the term. In the
groundswell of public skepticism toward the Warren Commission’s findings
on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA sent a
detailed directive to all of its bureaus. Titled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Commission Report,”
the dispatch played a definitive role in making the “conspiracy theory”
term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group
calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and
activities into question.

This important memorandum and its broad implications for American
politics and public discourse are detailed in a forthcoming book by
Florida State University political scientist Lance deHaven-Smith, Conspiracy Theory in America. Dr. deHaven-Smith devised the state crimes against democracy
concept to interpret and explain potential government complicity in
events such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the major political
assassinations of the 1960s, and 9/11.

CIA Document 1035-960 was released in response to a 1976 FOIA request by the New York Times.
The directive is especially significant because it outlines the CIA’s
concern regarding “the whole reputation of the American government”
vis-à-vis the Warren Commission Report. The agency was especially
interested in maintaining its own image and role as it “contributed
information to the [Warren] investigation.”

The memorandum lays out a detailed series of actions and techniques
for “countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists,
so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries.”
For example, approaching “friendly elite contacts (especially
politicians and editors)” to remind them of the Warren Commission’s
integrity and soundness should be prioritized. “[T]he charges of the
critics are without serious foundation,” the document reads, and
“further speculative discussion only plays in to the hands of the
[Communist] opposition.”

The agency also directed its members “[t]o employ propaganda assets
to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and
feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose.”

1035-960 further delineates specific techniques for countering
“conspiratorial” arguments centering on the Warren Commission’s
findings. Such responses and their coupling with the pejorative label
have been routinely wheeled out in various guises by corporate media
outlets, commentators and political leaders to this day against those
demanding truth and accountability about momentous public events.

*No significant new evidence has emerged which the [Warren] Commission did not consider.
*Critics usually overvalue particular items and ignore others.
*Conspiracy on the large scale often suggested would be impossible to conceal in the United States.
*Critics have often been enticed by a form of intellectual pride: they light on some theory and fall in love with it.
*Oswald would not have been any sensible person’s choice for a co-conspirator.
*Such vague accusations as that “more than ten people have died
mysteriously” [during the Warren Commission’s inquiry] can always be
explained in some natural way e.g.: the individuals concerned have for
the most part died of natural causes.

Today more so than ever news media personalities and commentators
occupy powerful positions for initiating propaganda activities closely
resembling those set out in 1035-960 against anyone who might question
state-sanctioned narratives of controversial and poorly understood
occurrences. Indeed, as the motives and methods encompassed in the
document have become fully internalized by intellectual workers and
operationalized through such media, the almost uniform public acceptance
of official accounts concerning unresolved events such as the Oklahoma
City Murrah Federal Building bombing, 9/11, and most recently the Sandy
Hook Elementary School massacre, is largely guaranteed.

The effect on academic and journalistic inquiry into ambiguous and
unexplained events that may in turn mobilize public inquiry, debate and
action has been dramatic and far-reaching. One need only look to the
rising police state and evisceration of civil liberties and
constitutional protections as evidence of how this set of subtle and
deceptive intimidation tactics has profoundly encumbered the potential
for future independent self-determination and civic empowerment.

1. Our Concern. From the day of President
Kennedy's assassination on, there has been speculation about the responsibility for
his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission report,
(which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time
to scan the Commission's published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning,
and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission's
findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind
of conspiracy, and often they have implied that the Commission itself was involved.
Presumably as a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission's report,
a public opinion poll recently indicated that 46% of the American public did not
think that Oswald acted alone, while more than half of those polled thought that
the Commission had left some questions unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show
similar, or possibly more adverse results.

2. This trend of opinion is a matter of concern to
the U.S. government, including our organization. The members of the Warren Commission
were naturally chosen for their integrity, experience and prominence. They represented
both major parties, and they and their staff were deliberately drawn from all sections
of the country. Just because of the standing of the Commissioners, efforts to impugn
their rectitude and wisdom tend to cast doubt on the whole leadership of American
society. Moreover, there seems to be an increasing tendency to hint that President
Johnson himself, as the one person who might be said to have benefited, was in some
way responsible for the assassination.

Innuendo of such seriousness affects not only the
individual concerned, but also the whole reputation of the American government. Our
organization itself is directly involved: among other facts, we contributed information
to the investigation. Conspiracy theories have frequently thrown suspicion on our
organization, for example by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us.
The aim of this dispatch is to provide material countering and discrediting the claims
of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other
countries. Background information is supplied in a classified section and in a number
of unclassified attachments.

3. Action. We do not recommend that discussion of
the assassination question be initiated where it is not already taking place. Where
discussion is active [business] addresses are requested:

a. To discuss the publicity problem with [?] and friendly
elite contacts (especially politicians and editors), pointing out that the Warren
Commission made as thorough an investigation as humanly possible, that the charges
of the critics are without serious foundation, and that further speculative discussion
only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy
talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists. Urge them to
use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation.

b. To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute
the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate
for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful
background material for passing to assets. Our ploy should point out, as applicable,
that the critics are (I) wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, (I)
politically interested, (III) financially interested, (IV) hasty and inaccurate in
their research, or (V) infatuated with their own theories. In the course of discussions
of the whole phenomenon of criticism, a useful strategy may be to single out Epstein's
theory for attack, using the attached Fletcher [?] article and Spectator piece for
background. (Although Mark Lane's book is much less convincing that Epstein's and
comes off badly where confronted by knowledgeable critics, it is also much more difficult
to answer as a whole, as one becomes lost in a morass of unrelated details.)

4. In private to media discussions not directed at
any particular writer, or in attacking publications which may be yet forthcoming,
the following arguments should be useful:

a. No significant new evidence has emerged which the
Commission did not consider. The assassination is sometimes compared (e.g., by Joachim
Joesten and Bertrand Russell) with the Dreyfus case; however, unlike that case, the
attack on the Warren Commission have produced no new evidence, no new culprits have
been convincingly identified, and there is no agreement among the critics. (A better
parallel, though an imperfect one, might be with the Reichstag fire of 1933, which
some competent historians (Fritz Tobias, AJ.P. Taylor, D.C. Watt) now believe was
set by Vander Lubbe on his own initiative, without acting for either Nazis or Communists;
the Nazis tried to pin the blame on the Communists, but the latter have been more
successful in convincing the world that the Nazis were to blame.)

b. Critics usually overvalue particular items and
ignore others. They tend to place more emphasis on the recollections of individual
witnesses (which are less reliable and more divergent--and hence offer more hand-holds
for criticism) and less on ballistics, autopsy, and photographic evidence. A close
examination of the Commission's records will usually show that the conflicting eyewitness
accounts are quoted out of context, or were discarded by the Commission for good
and sufficient reason.

c. Conspiracy on the large scale often suggested would
be impossible to conceal in the United States, esp. since informants could expect
to receive large royalties, etc. Note that Robert Kennedy, Attorney General at the
time and John F. Kennedy's brother, would be the last man to overlook or conceal
any conspiracy. And as one reviewer pointed out, Congressman Gerald R. Ford would
hardly have held his tongue for the sake of the Democratic administration, and Senator
Russell would have had every political interest in exposing any misdeeds on the part
of Chief Justice Warren. A conspirator moreover would hardly choose a location for
a shooting where so much depended on conditions beyond his control: the route, the
speed of the cars, the moving target, the risk that the assassin would be discovered.
A group of wealthy conspirators could have arranged much more secure conditions.

d. Critics have often been enticed by a form of intellectual
pride: they light on some theory and fall in love with it; they also scoff at the
Commission because it did not always answer every question with a flat decision one
way or the other. Actually, the make-up of the Commission and its staff was an excellent
safeguard against over-commitment to any one theory, or against the illicit transformation
of probabilities into certainties.

e. Oswald would not have been any sensible person's
choice for a co-conspirator. He was a "loner," mixed up, of questionable
reliability and an unknown quantity to any professional intelligence service.

f. As to charges that the Commission's report was
a rush job, it emerged three months after the deadline originally set. But to the
degree that the Commission tried to speed up its reporting, this was largely due
to the pressure of irresponsible speculation already appearing, in some cases coming
from the same critics who, refusing to admit their errors, are now putting out new
criticisms.

g. Such vague accusations as that "more than
ten people have died mysteriously" can always be explained in some natural way
e.g.: the individuals concerned have for the most part died of natural causes; the
Commission staff questioned 418 witnesses (the FBI interviewed far more people, conduction
25,000 interviews and re interviews), and in such a large group, a certain number
of deaths are to be expected. (When Penn Jones, one of the originators of the "ten
mysterious deaths" line, appeared on television, it emerged that two of the
deaths on his list were from heart attacks, one from cancer, one was from a head-on
collision on a bridge, and one occurred when a driver drifted into a bridge abutment.)

5. Where possible, counter speculation by encouraging
reference to the Commission's Report itself. Open-minded foreign readers should still
be impressed by the care, thoroughness, objectivity and speed
with which the Commission worked. Reviewers of other books might be encouraged to
add to their account the idea that, checking back with the report itself, they found
it far superior to the work of its critics.

sry mainstream establishment whores and haters of the individual resistance!

Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

If the signal is truly from an alien world, it’s one far more advanced than ours

An international team of scientists
from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
is investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a
6.3-billion-year-old star in the constellation Hercules—95 light years
away from Earth. The implications are extraordinary and point to the
possibility of a civilization far more advanced than our own.

The unusual signal was originally detected on May 15, 2015, by the Russian Academy of Science-operatedRATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia, but was kept secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.”

The mysterious star’s designation is HD164595, and it’s considered to
be sun-like in nature with a nearly identical metallic composition to
our own star. So far, a single Neptune-like (but warmer) planet has been
discovered in its orbit—HD 164595 b. But as Gilster explained, “There
could, of course, be other planets still undetected in this system.”

Decorated Italian SETI researcher and mathematician Claudio Maccone along with Russia’s Nikolai Bursov of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are the principal scientists working on the apparent discovery. They claim that “permanent monitoring of this target is needed.”

“The signal conceivably fits the
profile for an intentional transmission from an extraterrestrial
source,” said Alan Boyle, author of “The Case for Pluto” who reported
the story for Geekwire. “In
any case, the blip is interesting enough to merit discussion by those
who specialize in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.”

The signal’s strength indicates that
if it in fact came from a isotropic beacon, the power source would have
to be built by a Kardashev Type II civilization. (The Kardashev scale is
used to determine the progress of a civilization’s technological
development by measuring how much energy was used to transmit an
interstellar message.) An ‘Isotropic’ beacon means a communication
source emitting a signal with equal power in all directions while
promoting signal strength throughout travel.

In his acclaimed work “Transmission of Information by
Extraterrestrial Civilizations,” Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev
explained that a Type II civilization would be able to harness the
energy of their entire host star. The most common hypothetical example
of this would be a Dyson Sphere—which is a massive artificial structure
that could completely encapsulate a star and transfer the energy to a
nearby planet.

Basically, if the signal was beamed out
into the galaxy without aim or direction, that would require an
enormous amount of power to actually be detected. But what if the signal
was beamed specifically at our solar system? Well, that would require
less energy and could indicate the presence of a Kardashev Type I
civilization—meaning that it could be a highly technological,
contemporary society that harnesses the solar energy emitted by its
local star, much like our planet does with solar panels. This particular
civilization’s social structure is theorized to be completely
globalized and interconnected.

“The signal is provocative enough that the RATAN-600 researchers are
calling for permanent monitoring of this target,” said Gilster. And
that’s exactly what is transpiring. As of last night, the SETI institute
is diverting its Allen Telescope Array in northern California to
investigate while their counterparts at METI International (Messaging
Extraterrestrial Intelligence) will use Panama’s Boquete Optical
Observatory.

The detection of the mysterious signal
and the ensuing investigations will be discussed at the IAA SETI
Permanent Committee during the 67th International Astronautical Congress
in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 27—the same day and location where
Elon Musk will reveal his plans to colonize Mars. The Observer will be following up on both these stories from the Congress.

Robin Seemangal focuses on NASA and advocacy for space
exploration. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he currently
resides. Find him on Instagram for more space-related content: @nova_road.

Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

An international team of scientists from the Search For
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are investigating mysterious signal
spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star in the constellation
Hercules–95 light years away from Earth. The implications are
extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more
advanced than our own.

The unusual signal was originally
detected on May 15, 2015 by the Russian Academy of Science-operated
RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia but was kept
secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter
Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.”

The mysterious star’s designation is HD164595 and it’s considered to
be sun-like in nature with a nearly identical metallic composition to
our own star. So far, a single Neptune-like (but warmer) planet has been
discovered in its orbit–HD 164595 b. But as Gilster explained, “there
could, of course, be other planets still undetected in this system.”

Decorated
Italian SETI researcher and mathematician Claudio Maccone along with
Russia’s Nikolai Bursov of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are
the principal scientists working on the apparent discovery. They
claim that “permanent monitoring of this target is needed.”

“The signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission
from an extraterrestrial source,” says Alan Boyle, author of “The Case
for Pluto” who reported the story for Geekwire.
“ In any case, the blip is interesting enough to merit discussion by
those who specialize in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence,
or SETI.”

An international team of scientists from the Search For
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are investigating mysterious signal
spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star in the constellation
Hercules–95 light years away from Earth. The implications are
extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more
advanced than our own.

The unusual signal was originally
detected on May 15, 2015 by the Russian Academy of Science-operated
RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia but was kept
secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter
Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.”

The
mysterious star’s designation is HD164595 and it’s considered to be
sun-like in nature with a nearly identical metallic composition to our
own star. So far, a single Neptune-like (but warmer) planet has been
discovered in its orbit–HD 164595 b. But as Gilster explained, “there
could, of course, be other planets still undetected in this system.”

Decorated
Italian SETI researcher and mathematician Claudio Maccone along with
Russia’s Nikolai Bursov of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are
the principal scientists working on the apparent discovery. They
claim that “permanent monitoring of this target is needed.”

“The
signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission
from an extraterrestrial source,” says Alan Boyle, author of “The Case
for Pluto” who reported the story for Geekwire.
“ In any case, the blip is interesting enough to merit discussion by
those who specialize in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence,
or SETI.”

The signal’s strength indicates that if it in-fact came from a isotropic
beacon, the power source would have to be built by a Kardashev Type II
civilization (The Kardashev scale is used to determine the progress of a
civilization’s technological development by measuring how much energy
was used to transmit an interstellar message.) An ‘Isotropic’ beacon
means a communication source emitting a signal with equal power in all
directions while promoting signal strength throughout travel.

In
his acclaimed work “Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial
Civilizations,” Soviet Astronomer Nikolai Kardashev explained that a
Type II civilization would be able to harness the energy of their entire
host star. The most common hypothetical example of this would be a
Dyson Sphere–which is a massive artificial structure that could
completely encapsulate a star and transfer the energy to a nearby
planet.

Basically, if the signal was beamed out into the galaxy without aim
or direction, that would require an enormous amount of power to actually
be detected. But what if the signal was beamed specifically at our
solar system? Well, that would require less energy and could indicate
the presence of a Kardashev Type I civilization–meaning that it could be
a highly-technological, contemporary society that harnesses the solar
energy emitted by its local star, much like our planet does with solar
panels. This particular civilization’s social structure is theorized to
be completely globalized and interconnected.

“The signal is
provocative enough that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for
permanent monitoring of this target,” said Gilster. And that’s exactly
what is transpiring. As of last night, the SETI institute is diverting
its Allen Telescope Array in northern California to investigate while
their counterparts at METI International (Messaging Extraterrestrial
Intelligence) will utilize Panama’s Boquete Optical Observatory.

The detection of the mysterious
signal and the ensuing investigations will be discussed at the IAA SETI
Permanent Committee during the 67th International Astronautical Congress
in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 27th–the same day and location
where Elon Musk will reveal his plans to colonize Mars . The Observer will be following up on both these stories from the Congress.

Robin Seemangal focuses on NASA and advocacy for space
exploration. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he currently
resides. Find him on Instagram for more space-related content: @nova_road.

The elite's use young children's blood to live longer and so do I says Paypal Billionaire

Billionaire
PayPal founder Peter Thiel said that he believes transfusions of blood
from young people can reverse his ageing process and allow him to live a
vastly extended lifespan.

In an
interview with Inc.com’s Jeff Bercovici, Thiel said that the practice —
known as parabiosis — is the closest modern science has come to creating
an anti-aging panacea.Thiel — a
hedge funder who acted as a delegate for Donald Trump and spoke at the
2016 Republican National Convention — is reportedly obsessed with
defying death and extending the human lifespan. He has injected funds
into startups that are experimenting with ways to forestall the body’s
inevitable decline and death.“I’m looking
into parabiosis stuff,” Thiel told Bercovici, “where they [injected]
the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive
rejuvenating effect. … I think there are a lot of these things that have
been strangely underexplored.”Parabiosis
experiments began in the 1950s with crude exercises in which rats were
cut open and their circulatory systems restructured and manipulated.
Recently, some companies have been advancing human trials with
parabiosis. Bercovici wrote that U.S. studies in the field are currently
lagging behind trials in China and Korea.

1. This is a mass-tort and environmental Proposed Class Proceeding in
respect of the spraying into the atmosphere of toxic substances and
particulates by the Defendant that is dangerous to human health,
destructive to the environment, and has caused meaningful economic
damages.

A Declaration that the aerial discharge of coal fly ash and/or other contaminants

contravenes the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and appurtenant

Regulations;

A Declaration that the aerial discharge of coal fly ash and/or other contaminants

contravenes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;

c. An interlocutory and a final mandatory order directing that the
Defendant comply with the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and
appurtenant Regulations;

An interlocutory and a final mandatory order directing that the
Defendant comply with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;

An interlocutory and a final mandatory Order that the Defendant
immediately cease and desist the ongoing aerial discharge of coal fly
ash and/or other contaminants or substances;

Facts:

On various dates, the Plaintiff observed that certain aircraft
discharged trails comprising of white particulate like matter (“Aerial
Discharge”), and which Aerial Discharge would persist and often span
across the horizon and across the length of the sky.

The Aerial Discharges slowly dissipated, formed a thin, hazy film across the sky, and would obfuscate the sun’s rays.

The Aerial Discharges dissipate across ranges of altitudes,
including lower altitudes. Thus, the Aerial Discharges dissipate in the
lower altitudes which include the air that the Plaintiff, his family and
the potential members of the Class breath.

The Plaintiff pleads that the Aerial Discharges are comprised of
minute particles that are toxic and/or are easily absorbed into the body
and the environment, and are thus dangerous when absorbed into the body
or the environment.

The Plaintiff pleads that the Defendant, and/or her agent’s or
instrumentalities perform the Aerial Discharges over Canadian air space.

The Plaintiff further pleads that the Defendant knows or ought to know that the Aerial Discharges are dangerous

“It bears repeating that fires have never caused the total collapse of a steel-framed high-rise before or since 9/11,” the researchers write. “Did we witness an unprecedented event three separate times on September 11, 2001?”...

Here are some of the observations the researchers offered:

- Fires typically are not hot enough and do not last long enough in any single area to generate enough energy to heat the large structural members to the point where they fail (the temperature at which structural steel loses enough strength to fail is dependent on the factor of safety used in the design. In the case of WTC 7, for example, the factor of safety was generally 3 or higher. Here, 67 percent of the strength would need to be lost for failure to ensue, which would require the steel to be heated to about 660°C); - Most high-rises have fire suppression systems (water sprinklers), which further prevent a fire from releasing sufficient energy to heat the steel to a critical failure state; - Structural members are protected by fireproofing materials, which are designed to prevent them from reaching failure temperatures within specified time periods; - Steel-framed high-rises are designed to be highly redundant structural systems. Thus, if a localized failure occurs, it does not result in a disproportionate collapse of the entire structure. Throughout history, three steel-framed high-rises are known to have suffered partial collapses due to fires; none of those led to a total collapse. Countless other steel-framed high-rises have experienced large, long-lasting fires without suffering either partial or total collapse. In addition to resisting ever-present gravity loads and occasional fires, high-rises must be designed to resist loads generated during other extreme events – in particular, high winds and earthquakes.

The physicists also note the Towers were specifically designed to withstand the impact and destructive force of airliners crashes....

Pancake theory is mental gymnastics bullshit!

The total collapse of WTC 7 at 5:20 pm on 9/11, is remarkable because it exemplified all the signature features of an implosion: The building dropped in absolute free fall for the first 2.25 seconds of its descent over a distance of 32 meters or eight stories. Its transition from stasis to free fall was sudden, occurring in approximately one-half second. It fell symmetrically straight down. Its steel frame was almost entirely dismembered and deposited mostly inside the building's footprint, while most of its concrete was pulverized into tiny particles. Finally, the collapse was rapid, occurring in less than seven seconds. Given the nature of the collapse, any investigation adhering to the scientific method should have seriously considered the controlled demolition hypothesis, if not started with it. Instead, NIST (as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which conducted a preliminary study prior to the NIST investigation) began with the predetermined conclusion that the collapse was caused by fires. ...

George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company
providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles
International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records.
The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp.,
also linked for years to the Bush family.

The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named
Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the
company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at
the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down."

It also had a three-year contract to maintain electronic security
systems at Dulles Airport, according to a Dulles contracting official.
Securacom/Stratesec also handled some security for United Airlines in
the 1990s, according to McDaniel, but it had been completed before his
arriving on the board in 1998.

McDaniel confirmed that the company has security contracts with the
Department of Defense, including the U.S. Army, but did not detail the
nature of the work, citing security concerns. It has an ongoing line
with the General Services Administration - meaning that its bids for
contracts are noncompetitive - and also did security work for the Los
Alamos laboratory before 1998.

“Wasted breath keeps a secret”
A traveller heads towards a bridge which spans a river. At each end a
fortified door bars access. On a cloud, a bowman aims in the direction
of the road leading to the bridge.

Another transliteration of the latin title is “a missing word keeps a
secret”. The bowman represents the danger from God or the Devil
(duality) regarding the person who dares to seek to penetrate the
boundaries of this powerful domain; who dares to grasp the hidden
meanings to unlock the gates of secrecy.

The image can be a stark warning to those who contemplate
proceeding. The river represents a boundary and transcendence; it is
strength and calamity. And so the bowman also represents Eros or Cupid,
who has gone through many reinterpretations, shooting his golden arrow
to inspire love (positive benefit of the alluded transformation); but
with two arrows, as depicted by LCF, there is also the risk of hatred.
Finally, the bowman holds more than a striking resemblance to the Ceniza
brothers. It is they who have removed one of the Lucifer engravings
(from the Telfer / Taillefer copy, now in possession of Balkan / Corso)
and replaced it with a forgery. They represent the “missing word” that
perpetuates the secret; the missing engraving, which they actually have
concealed in their shop. As Corso leaves their shop in Toledo so danger
descends upon him from above (the collapsing scaffolding) signifying
that he did not acquire the missing engraving.

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